ROGERS-ISMS. THE COWBOY PHILOSOPHER ON THE PEACE CONFERENCE by ROGERS, Will - (1919)

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1919). First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to the corners and the tips of the spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. Decorated orange and white boards lettered in black. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Rogers. According to the front cover, "You can't tell Peace from War without this Book" and "I made this book short so you could finish it before the next war." INSCRIBED "To Mr. S. D. Green" and SIGNED "Will Rogers" with the notation "Amateur Author" on the front endpaper. Rogers was born in Indian Territory in 1879 and had some Native American blood in his veins. He began in vaudeville and moved on to motion pictures, a career that was cut short when he died in a small plane crash in 1935 near Point Barrow, Alaska. Perhaps he was best known, however, for his syndicated newspaper column which had such a massive following that the proposition that he run for President was once seriously advanced. His saying, "All I know is what I read in the newspapers," became a popular catchword of the times. Books signed or inscribed by this most popular of American humorists and member of the Cherokee Nation are uncommon.